2009/12/14 Dag-Erling Smrgrav <des@des.no>:
> Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> writes:
>> http://ietfdocs.potaroo.net/rfc/rfc1791.txt
>
> Priceless!
>
>> I remember that around the early 90's I read one of those peecee
>> magazine authors (maybe Jerry Pournelle) asking the IETF to, please,
>> drop that TCP/IP thingy and instead choose a standard, widely used
>> protocol for the Internet: IPX.
>
> Umm, is IPX even routable?
Yup, it sure is. Xylan had IPX routing in their switch/routers when I
worked there, done by the same group that did IP routing. It was
bugly.
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